Lu Qiaosheng, Hwang Ying T, Hwang Charles B C
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Medical College, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York 13210, USA.
J Virol. 2002 Jun;76(11):5822-8. doi: 10.1128/jvi.76.11.5822-5828.2002.
To examine whether the exonuclease activity intrinsic to the polymerase (Pol) of herpes simplex virus type 1 can influence the mutational spectra, we applied the denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE) system combined with sequencing to characterize thymidine kinase mutants isolated from both the wild-type virus and a mutant deficient in exonuclease activity, Y7. Wild-type viruses produced predominantly frameshift mutations (67%), whereas Y7 replicated a significantly lower proportion of frameshifts (21%; P < 0.005). Furthermore, the majority of substitutions were transitional changes in both groups, although they distributed differently. The implications of these findings are discussed.
为了研究单纯疱疹病毒1型聚合酶(Pol)固有的核酸外切酶活性是否会影响突变谱,我们应用变性梯度凝胶电泳(DGGE)系统结合测序技术,对从野生型病毒和核酸外切酶活性缺陷型突变体Y7中分离出的胸苷激酶突变体进行了表征。野生型病毒主要产生移码突变(67%),而Y7复制的移码突变比例显著较低(21%;P < 0.005)。此外,两组中的大多数替换都是转换变化,尽管它们的分布有所不同。我们讨论了这些发现的意义。